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| Abbey Hotel, Staveley | ||
| Abbey Hotel | ||
| locality:- | Staveley | |
| civil parish:- | Over Staveley (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | SD47029835 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4798 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD49 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 6) placename:- Abbey Hotel |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Abbey |
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| source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J5SD49NE.jpg "Abbey" block? item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Abbey |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of
Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles
to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R
Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843. FD02SD49.jpg "Abbey" item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) placename:- Abbey Hotel |
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| source data:- | Advertisement for J M Higginson at the Abbey Hotel, Staveley, Westmorland, 1850. click to enlargeAK2A10.jpg At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn.  click to enlargeAK2A11.jpg item:- Armitt Library : A1144.20 Image © see bottom of page |
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| notes:- |
Built at the end of the 19th century to serve people arriving by rail; then a children's
home; now a retirement home. |
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